TEN SONNETS TO ORPHEUS
Parallel text edition of Rilke's first ten Sonnets to Orpheus, inscribed by translator Robert Bly to poet Stanley Plumly.
Parallel text edition of Rilke's first ten Sonnets to Orpheus, inscribed by translator Robert Bly to poet Stanley Plumly.
The first of Tranströmer's books to be published in English as a whole work, with the original Swedish texts following Bly's translations.
First edition of this five-part masque, with musical arrangement by Celia Zukofsky after Handel.
First edition of this quasi-anthropological, excruciatingly arch, but nevertheless legendary photobook study of punks: their habitat, dress, and curious manners.
First edition of this foundational investigation into the modern score as visual (and not just musical) art, from Dick Higgins's noted press.
Original working typescript for editor Lester Cohen's memoir of his time at THE NEW YORK GRAPHIC (1924-1932), one of the earliest and most notorious tabloid newspapers of the 20th century.
First edition of this scarce social satire/wholesome sex farce by pseudonymous pulp king Woodford, in remarkably nice condition.
Zukofsky's illuminating handbook of poems, presented initially without attribution and followed by historical notes and criticism, originally published by the Objectivist Press in 1948.
First US edition of the first half of Zukofsky's long poem, initially published by Origin Press in 1959, with an introduction by Robert Creeley.
First edition thus, Series One and Two of Zukofsky's collected poems, previously published separately by Norton in 1965 and 1966.
First edition of this critical study and compositional history of Zukofsky's monumental poem.
First issue of this magazine published by the short-lived Bay Area situationist group.
First hardcover edition of this late-career collection from the Beat legend, published by the same house that printed his first: City Lights.
Uncommon limited hardcover edition of Frank's bibliography of Dick Higgin's artists' book press.
Rare first catalogue from Higgins's Something Else Press, with a signed note from the publisher of Fluxus artists and concrete poetry: "the sort of avant-garde work which offers a real alternative to the conventional art forms."
The second of two Hanuman titles by Wieners, including some material previously published in FAG RAG.
First edition of this comprehensive collection of Zukofsky's short works, with a foreword by Robert Creeley.
Signed first edition of Zappa's autobiography, published just a year before his prostate-cancer diagnosis — a review copy.
First printing of Saroyan's minimalist conceptual novel, with the author's hand-drawn smiley face and inscription from the year of publication.
First edition of this book of candid photos sent to the author by skinheads from around Europe and Australia, a scarce record of the movement as it relates to the Oi! and ska music genres.
Limited edition of Snow's artist's book in the guise of a school notebook — filled with unsolvable word problems and paradoxes, obscene scrawls, and fanciful drawings.
Scarce first printing of this distinctive black-and-white photobook of the effervescent art world of 1960s New York, featuring Warhol, Duchamp, Johns, Lichtenstein and more.
Scarce original program from one of Smith's earliest gigs, predating her first album by almost two years.
Original promo flyer for a reading series at NYC's Ear Inn (Dec. 5 to Feb. 27) where poets both major and lesser-known performed.
Issue of this venerable magazine featuring Eliot's 1950 lecture at Harvard titled "Poetry and Drama," with a cover portrait of T.S. Eliot by Mimi Korach.